aside from the catcher's vacume(foul a first pitch into the cachers mit and get rung up, that was brutal), 2004 was tremendous . if i was on the asb production team i would have changed only a few things going into 2005.
1)i would have made exagerated pitch the default. its much more realistic and new players wouldn't be turned off by the intimidating interface. i see they got a little drastic and made zone hitting the default. thats all good i guess but it in my opinion it was unnecessary. the pitcher hitter battle is perfect with exagerated pitch on. thats right perfect.
2)make it simple to re-arrange rosters for an exhibition game. never let the computer override a roster move for a mere exibition game. i mean, what the hell was that?
3)tighten up the animations when a fielder catches a fly on the run, i guess people call it a vacume, i see it more as minor graphical sloppiness. maybe add some more "before the pitch" fielder animations. signature fielding stances(is that silly) i think it could be pretty cool.
as for new additions,
drill us with tons of RENAMEABLE complete classic teams. maddens does it espn nhl hockey does it ASB needs to do it. just get the height/weight/batting side/throwing side as well as the attributes for everyone and pitch selection for pitchers and let the GAME OWNER edit the names and numbers. and thats all we need. some dork (god bless their souls) will crank out the names and #'s on shark port and action replay within a week. and let us use the teams and see the names online.
anyway, if anyone reading this works for acclaim. thak you, for creating the best baseball game ever (well pound for pound the best ever console baseball game was baseball-stars for nintendo). but as for as being the greatest most fun, realistic ball game ever. you beat the competition hands down. you should be proud.
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